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European papers reprint caricatures
A French newspaper on Wednesday reprinted a series of 12 Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) that have sparked protests in the Muslim world and prompted Saudi Arabia to recall its ambassador from Denmark.
- Agencies
- Published: 23:32 May 3, 2009
Paris: A French newspaper on Wednesday reprinted a series of 12 Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) that have sparked protests in the Muslim world and prompted Saudi Arabia to recall its ambassador from Denmark.
With a mounting diplomatic storm, calls for a boycott of Danish goods and flag-burning protests, Danish security police met Muslim religious leaders in a bid to contain any domestic reaction to cartoons first run by the Jyllands-Posten paper.
Police said they had won a pledge from Denmark's imams to work to prevent an escalation of the row while the France Soir daily said it had published the cartoons in the name of freedom of expression and to fight religious intolerance.
There was no comment on the France Soir move from the leaders of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), a body set up to represent France's 5 million Muslims.
Meanwhile, Germany's Die Welt, La Stampa in Italy and El Periodico in Spain all carried some of the drawings. Islamic tradition bans depictions of the Prophet.
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